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1 Samuel 14:47

“So Saul took the kingdom over Israel, and fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines: and whithersoever he turned himself, he vexed them.” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

שָׁאוּלShâʼûwl · shaw-ool'
H7586 · Hebrew

Definition: Shaul, the name of an Edomite and two Israelites
Derivation: passive participle of H7592 (שָׁאַל); asked;
KJV renderings: Saul, Shaul.
Grammar: וְ — conjunction
שָׁא֛וּל — proper noun
Code HC/Np
Usage: Occurs 406 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 36:37 Genesis 36:38 Genesis 46:10 Exodus 6:15 Numbers 26:13

Theological interpretation (AI)

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Verse 46 Verse 48

Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.